John Strang: decrees cover all acts, but not in the same way; evil acts are objects of a non-efficacious permission
The Scot John Strang, a few years ago one of the most celebrated men of his own side, reasons here in a way of his own. He grants that God's eternal decrees concern each and every human act, but not all in the same way.
First, evil acts, in his view, are objects of the divine decrees not because God decreed and predefined that they should be done, but because God decreed to permit them to be done, then to bring good out of them and order them to various ends. He denies, however, that this permission is efficacious, that is, such that once it is in place whatever is permitted follows necessarily.
Latin
VII. Joannes Strangius Scotus vir ante paucos annos inter suos celeberrimus, hic singulari quadam ratione philosophatur. Nam aeterna Dei decreta circa omnes & singulos hominum actus versari concedit, sed non eodem modo. Primo enim quod attinet actus malos, ex ejus sententia, objiciuntur decretis divinis, non quod Deus illos fieri decreverit & praedefinierit, sed quia Deus decrevit permittere ut fiant, tum bonum ex illis elicere, eosque ad fines varios ordinare. Illam autem permissionem efficacem esse negat, id est, talem, ut ea posita, necessario sequatur quicquid fieri permittitur.